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[RFA] Fix/improve on-line help of 'define' command.

Message ID 1529008278.2365.4.camel@skynet.be
State New, archived
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Philippe Waroquiers June 14, 2018, 8:31 p.m. UTC 
  On Wed, 2018-06-13 at 07:19 -0400, Simon Marchi wrote:
> On 2018-06-04 05:31 PM, Philippe Waroquiers wrote:
> > While I was playing with 'define' to understand how some quoting was
> > done (or not done), I found an inconsistency between the doc
> > and the online help.
> > => the doc is correct, so fixing/improving the on-line help.
> > 
> > 2018-06-04  Philippe Waroquiers  <philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be>
> > 
> > 	* cli/cli-script.c (_initialize_cli_script): Fix online documentation
> >         of 'define' command.
> > ---
> >  gdb/cli/cli-script.c | 3 ++-
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/gdb/cli/cli-script.c b/gdb/cli/cli-script.c
> > index 72de8ec1c7..8ceecdf435 100644
> > --- a/gdb/cli/cli-script.c
> > +++ b/gdb/cli/cli-script.c
> > @@ -1602,7 +1602,8 @@ Define a new command name.  Command name is argument.\n\
> >  Definition appears on following lines, one command per line.\n\
> >  End with a line of just \"end\".\n\
> >  Use the \"document\" command to give documentation for the new command.\n\
> > -Commands defined in this way may have up to ten arguments."));
> > +Commands defined in this way may accept an unlimited number of arguments\n\
> > +accessed via $arg0 .. $argN. $argc tells how many arguments have been passed."));
> 
> Two spaces after period, keep the length <= 80 columns.  Otherwise, LGTM.
Thanks.
I fixed the 2 things above, and pushed the below.
Philippe
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diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index 8150685e5c..60766ca777 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ 
+2018-06-14  Philippe Waroquiers  <philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be>
+
+       * cli/cli-script.c (_initialize_cli_script): Fix online documentation
+       of 'define' command.
+
 2018-06-14  Tom de Vries  <tdevries@suse.de>
 
        PR cli/22573
diff --git a/gdb/cli/cli-script.c b/gdb/cli/cli-script.c
index 72de8ec1c7..87ebf9fc00 100644
--- a/gdb/cli/cli-script.c
+++ b/gdb/cli/cli-script.c
@@ -1602,7 +1602,9 @@  Define a new command name.  Command name is argument.\n\
 Definition appears on following lines, one command per line.\n\
 End with a line of just \"end\".\n\
 Use the \"document\" command to give documentation for the new command.\n\
-Commands defined in this way may have up to ten arguments."));
+Commands defined in this way may accept an unlimited number of arguments\n\
+accessed via $arg0 .. $argN.  $argc tells how many arguments have\n\
+been passed."));
 
   add_com ("while", class_support, while_command, _("\
 Execute nested commands WHILE the conditional expression is non zero.\n\